On the evening of December 17, 2016, 51-year-old George Robert Brown was fatally shot multiple times while standing in the front yard of his Olive Street home in Louisville’s Parkland neighborhood. Police arrived shortly after 6 p.m. to find Brown dead; his 5-year-old son was present and witnessed the killing. The motive was not immediately clear and a homicide investigation opened.

In January 2017 the Louisville Metro Police Department arrested Derrick Taylor Jr. and charged him with murder. Brown’s family, including his daughter LaKeisha and his sister Sharon, attended court hearings and stayed in contact with investigators as the case proceeded.